Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Crazy Jealous Guy Getting Crap Past the Radar Truth in Television The Voiceless Kids Are Cruel Big Fancy House Married to the Job The Dreaded Cruel and Unusual Death Stealth Pun Anti-Hero Stepford Smiler Actually Pretty Funny Fire-Forged Friends Dual Wielding Fainting Handicapped Badass Cool Old Lady Gory Discretion Shot Anachronism Stew Product Placement Affectionate Parody Race Against the Clock Naïve Newcomer Bottomless Magazines Bring My Brown Pants Big Brother Instinct Badass Bookworm Comically Missing the Point Jump Scare Sports Stories Riddle for the Ages Book-Ends Early-Bird Cameo Missing Mom Fake Shemp Big Bad Duumvirate Mundane Made Awesome Sadistic Choice Meaningful Name The Lost Lenore Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer German Films Leaning on the Fourth Wall Attempted Rape Anachronic Order Victoria's Secret Compartment Kill 'em All Insistent Terminology Suspiciously Specific Denial Jerkass Has a Point Match Cut Shell-Shocked Veteran The Alcoholic Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bad Boss Mr. Exposition Babies Ever After Conspicuous CG The Stoic Dark Is Not Evil Nothing Is Scarier Sequel Hook Heterosexual Life-Partners Costume Porn Market-Based Title Friend to All Children Author Avatar Better to Die than Be Killed Shoot the Shaggy Dog Real Life Man on Fire Self-Deprecation Parental Incest Lock and Load Montage Bald of Evil Non-Indicative Name Mr. Fanservice Public Domain Feature Films Laughing Mad Happily Married Your Cheating Heart The Mafia Death by Sex Canadian Movies Documentary Due to the Dead Disappeared Dad Framing Device Eureka Moment Action Survivor Even Evil Has Loved Ones Zombie Stories Arch-Enemy Japanese Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dark Reprise Eyepatch of Power Lighter and Softer Setting Update Fourth Date Marriage Boom, Headshot! Chewing the Scenery The X of Y Green-Eyed Monster Black and Gray Morality Ax-Crazy Adaptational Attractiveness Bar Brawl Hate Sink Loophole Abuse Armor-Piercing Question Accidental Murder Music Stories Bond Villain Stupidity Expository Hairstyle Change Ironic Echo Dropped a Bridge on Him All There in the Script Never Trust a Trailer War Is Hell '80s Hair Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Narrator Disney Villain Death Too Dumb to Live Wrong Genre Savvy BFG Rule of Funny Show Within a Show Death Glare Light Is Not Good Leitmotif Sci-Fi Horror Storming the Castle Crucified Hero Shot Hidden Depths Evil-Detecting Dog Redemption Equals Death Breaking the Fourth Wall Overprotective Dad Pragmatic Adaptation Extreme Doormat Composite Character Aluminum Christmas Trees Love at First Sight Chekhov's Gun Gainax Ending Spiteful Spit Pay Evil unto Evil Off with His Head! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fiery Redhead Hypocritical Humor Drill Sergeant Nasty Abusive Parents Demonic Possession Darkest Hour Silent Movie Idiot Ball Amusing Injuries Break the Haughty Pretty in Mink Apocalypse How Undying Loyalty Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Mole My God, What Have I Done? Cool Car Hair-Trigger Temper Covers Always Lie Flipping the Bird Creative Closing Credits "Awesome McCool" Name Despair Event Horizon Death by Adaptation Cool Old Guy Foil Cowboy Cop British Films All for Nothing Defiant to the End Psychopathic Manchild Skewed Priorities An Aesop Manic Pixie Dream Girl Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Sealed Evil in a Can Auto Erotica Loads and Loads of Characters Serious Business Foreshadowing Neck Snap Big Eater Irony Ascended Extra Immune to Bullets Maybe Ever After Take a Third Option Does This Remind You of Anything? Corpsing Visual Pun The Oner Humans Are Bastards Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mythology Gag And the Adventure Continues Combat Pragmatist As the Good Book Says... Scenery Gorn Adult Fear Race Lift Obstructive Bureaucrat Henpecked Husband MacGuffin Line-of-Sight Name Historical-Domain Character Continuity Nod Dutch Angle Intergenerational Friendship Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Everyone Has Standards Have a Gay Old Time Slasher Smile From Nobody to Nightmare Slap-Slap-Kiss Smoking Is Cool Camera Abuse Enemy Mine Reality Has No Subtitles French Films Gold Digger Only One Name Cat Fight Calling the Old Man Out My Beloved Smother Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Villain Ball Your Head A-Splode Humiliation Conga Ambiguously Gay Evil Is Hammy Reckless Gun Usage Hell Is That Noise Cain and Abel Agony of the Feet Those Two Guys Red Herring Jerk Jock Instant Death Bullet Dying Moment of Awesome Yandere Retired Badass La Résistance Accidental Misnaming Heel Realization Overly Long Gag Hope Spot Deliberate Values Dissonance Heel–Face Turn Rousing Speech Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Older Than They Look Silence Is Golden Film Noir Let's Get Dangerous! Red Eyes, Take Warning Sassy Black Woman Dumb Blonde The Bad Guy Wins The Great Depression Romantic Comedy Defrosting Ice Queen Break the Cutie Fingore Call-Forward Adapted Out Chekhov's Skill Alpha Bitch Broken Bird Deconstruction Jitter Cam Department of Redundancy Department Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Film Series Police are Useless Car Fu Jerk with a Heart of Gold A.I. Is a Crapshoot Not So Above It All The Bully Poor Communication Kills Politically Incorrect Villain Worthy Opponent Fanservice Extra Obviously Evil Leave the Camera Running Beard of Evil The Casanova Meaningful Background Event Establishing Character Moment Curse Cut Short In the Back Offscreen Teleportation Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Big Damn Heroes Sole Survivor Karmic Death Unusually Uninteresting Sight Television Movie Index Annoying Younger Sibling Revenge Hooker with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Trailers Always Spoil Mooks Big "NO!" Badass Normal Sequel Escalation Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Deliberately Monochrome Playing Gertrude Dark Action Girl Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Only in It for the Money Training Montage Dramedy The Hero Dies Drives Like Crazy Chiaroscuro Villain Opening Scene Daddy's Girl I Did What I Had to Do Slasher Movie Running Gag Serial Killer Posthumous Character Cat Scare No Name Given No Ending Alas, Poor Villain Broken Aesop Early Installment Weirdness Malevolent Masked Men Stealth Hi/Bye Badass in a Nice Suit More Dakka Shipper on Deck Evil Brit Peek-a-Boo Corpse Parental Abandonment Mystery and Detective Films Author Appeal Sinister Minister Tap on the Head Soundtrack Dissonance Kubrick Stare Stylistic Suck Face Death with Dignity I Just Shot Marvin in the Face He Knows Too Much Bloodless Carnage Depraved Bisexual The Film of the Book Straight Gay Funny Foreigner Shut Up, Hannibal! Character Development Dark and Troubled Past Eye Scream Black Dude Dies First Adorkable Token Minority Parental Substitute Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! It's All About Me Adults Are Useless Country Matters Dramatic Gun Cock Determinator Reality Is Unrealistic All Girls Want Bad Boys Easily Forgiven Fanservice Daylight Horror Advertised Extra Totally Radical My Greatest Failure Hero of Another Story Hollywood Darkness The '60s Central Theme Fish out of Water Hypocrite Male Frontal Nudity Scare Chord The Chessmaster Animal Motifs Artistic License – Biology Moment Killer Made of Explodium Body Horror Bittersweet Ending Rule of Symbolism Artistic License – Geography Martial Arts Movie The Dog Bites Back Wicked Cultured Refuge in Audacity Sanity Slippage True Companions Unresolved Sexual Tension Grey and Gray Morality Crazy-Prepared Hollywood Law Flashback Morality Pet Vomit Discretion Shot Pimped-Out Dress World of Ham Brutal Honesty Big Bad Gorn B-Movie Broken Pedestal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Recycled IN SPACE! As You Know Butt-Monkey No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Re-Cut Dirty Coward Kick the Son of a Bitch And I Must Scream The Un-Reveal Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Only Known by Their Nickname Unwitting Instigator of Doom Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Chase Scene Deadpan Snarker Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Smurfette Principle Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane One-Word Title Punny Name Video Credits Make It Look Like an Accident Disproportionate Retribution Gender Flip Pyrrhic Victory Demoted to Extra Brainless Beauty Mad Scientist Improvised Weapon Up to Eleven Children Are Innocent Chekhov's Gunman The Vamp Say My Name Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Curb-Stomp Battle Ms. Fanservice Taking the Bullet Only Sane Man Disney Death Plot Hole Took a Level in Badass As Himself All Men Are Perverts Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Meaningful Echo Arranged Marriage Anti-Villain Protagonist Title Bi the Way A God Am I It's Personal Villain Protagonist The Musical Final Girl The Lancer Pretty Little Headshots The Load No OSHA Compliance Knife Nut Villain with Good Publicity Half the Man He Used to Be Implacable Man Wretched Hive Shown Their Work Impaled with Extreme Prejudice 20 Minutes into the Future Not So Stoic Madness Mantra Dies Wide Open Red Shirt Important Haircut The Chick Danny Peary Cult Movies List Improbable Weapon User Greater-Scope Villain Gilligan Cut Blatant Lies Rape as Drama Action Girl Bavarian Fire Drill Those Two Bad Guys Canon Foreigner Our Zombies Are Different Dogged Nice Guy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Darker and Edgier Ominous Latin Chanting An Axe to Grind Translation Convention Exact Words Same Language Dub Bullying a Dragon Double Entendre Manchild In Medias Res Artistic License – Physics Index of Film Westerns Fat Bastard Four-Temperament Ensemble Black Comedy Rape Artistic License – Military Hong Kong Films Catch-Phrase Black Best Friend "Shaggy Dog" Story Bare Your Midriff Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Manly Tears Love Triangle Vitriolic Best Buds Epic Movie Vampire Fiction Corrupt Corporate Executive Berserk Button Horror Comedy The Place Lampshade Hanging The Quiet One Closed Circle Homage Adaptational Villainy Men Are the Expendable Gender Tagline Funny Background Event Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mexican Standoff Informed Ability Mercy Kill Artistic License – Gun Safety Ghost Fiction Blood from the Mouth Adaptational Badass Rich Bitch Put on a Bus The Brute You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Would Hit a Girl Bad "Bad Acting" Fatal Family Photo Determinator aka: The Determinator Laser-Guided Karma I Have Your Wife Credits Gag Artistic License – Law Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Awesome, but Impractical Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dull Surprise The Reveal Coming-of-Age Story Empathic Environment Rasputinian Death "Well Done, Son!" Guy Reasonable Authority Figure Award-Bait Song Age Lift Superhero Aside Glance She Cleans Up Nicely Diabolus ex Machina Spell My Name with an "S" Biopic Cool Guns Bowdlerise Double-Meaning Title Bolivian Army Ending Ungrateful Bastard What the Hell, Hero? Not Quite Dead Downer Ending Bloodier and Gorier Action Prologue Imagine Spot Italian Films Suddenly SHOUTING! Australian Movies Air-Vent Passageway Expy Kick the Dog Unusual Euphemism Meet Cute Sexy Discretion Shot Famous Last Words Manipulative Bastard Creator Cameo Hoist by His Own Petard Deal with the Devil The Starscream Cloudcuckoolander Names to Run Away from Really Fast Roaring Rampage of Revenge The End... Or Is It? Intrepid Reporter Extremely Short Timespan timeperiod From Bad to Worse The Faceless Twist Ending Smug Snake Big-Bad Ensemble Developing Doomed Characters Captain Ersatz The Ditz Genre Savvy The Stoner Almost Kiss Death of a Child Every Car Is a Pinto Disguised in Drag Together in Death Wham Line Amoral Attorney Would Hurt a Child All Just a Dream Bound and Gagged Mood Whiplash Beauty Is Never Tarnished Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Rated M for Manly Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Grievous Bottley Harm Star-Crossed Lovers Taking You with Me Epic Fail Spared by the Adaptation The Atoner I'm a Humanitarian Ripped from the Headlines Domestic Abuse Bilingual Bonus Abhorrent Admirer Casting Gag For Want of a Nail Thriller The '80s Stock Footage Even Evil Has Standards Does Not Like Shoes Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Knight Templar Alliterative Name Eagleland Whole Plot Reference Decoy Protagonist Papa Wolf The '90s Obfuscating Stupidity Brother–Sister Incest Woman Scorned Science Fiction Films Fan Disservice Took a Level in Jerkass Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bond One-Liner Scary Black Man Red Oni, Blue Oni Genre Shift Exactly What It Says on the Tin Unspoken Plan Guarantee Destination Defenestration Drowning My Sorrows Contrived Coincidence Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Mighty Whitey Honor Before Reason Well-Intentioned Extremist Karma Houdini Time Skip The Ace Never My Fault Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! You Killed My Father Heroes Want Redheads O.O.C. Is Serious Business Historical Hero Upgrade Super Strength Oh, Crap! Red Right Hand Punch-Clock Villain Male Gaze Bunny-Ears Lawyer One Steve Limit Dwindling Party Police Brutality Fatal Flaw Paper-Thin Disguise This Is Gonna Suck Five-Man Band Bland-Name Product NO INDOOR VOICE Small Name, Big Ego Monumental Damage Bury Your Gays Badass Boast Noodle Incident Adaptation Dye-Job Ambiguous Ending It Will Never Catch On Last-Name Basis Cluster F-Bomb Adaptation Name Change Action Genre Brick Joke Properly Paranoid Real Life Writes the Plot Faking the Dead Reality Ensues Gone Horribly Right Frame-Up Did Not Get the Girl Historical In-Joke Big Applesauce The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cassandra Truth Drugs Are Bad Hero Antagonist Once More, with Clarity! Those Wacky Nazis It Can Think Dissonant Serenity Antagonist Title Not Using the "Z" Word The Power of Love Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Crapsack World Failed a Spot Check The Cavalry The '50s Retirony Evil Plan Arc Words Interrupted Suicide A Date with Rosie Palms Groin Attack What Happened to the Mouse? Cold-Blooded Torture Death Seeker Mind Screw After the End Insane Troll Logic Anyone Can Die Pragmatic Villainy Motor Mouth There Is No Kill Like Overkill Retcon And Starring Fantastic Racism Major Injury Underreaction Stalker with a Crush Actor Allusion You Have Failed Me Badass Grandpa Mugging the Monster Becoming the Mask Driven to Suicide The Dragon Animal Title Index Foregone Conclusion The Alleged Car Animated Credits Opening Title Drop Word of God The Big Guy Film Noir Index Ass Shove Artistic License – History Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor N-Word Privileges Our Vampires Are Different Adaptation Distillation Logo Joke Wham Shot Villainous Breakdown Ship Tease Shower Scene Insult Backfire Horror Films Evil vs. Evil Shout-Out Evil Counterpart Villain Song Pre-Mortem One-Liner Kill It with Fire Soft Glass Toplessness from the Back Guile Hero Card-Carrying Villain Camp Gay Shirtless Scene Mama Bear Evil Laugh Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fun with Acronyms Redshirt Army Deus ex Machina May–December Romance No Antagonist Only a Flesh Wound Never Found the Body In Name Only Authority Equals Asskicking A Minor Kidroduction Works Set in World War II Call-Back For the Evulz Face–Heel Turn Dirty Old Man The '70s Anguished Declaration of Love Blackmail Fate Worse than Death Killed Mid-Sentence An Arm and a Leg Creepy Child Improbable Aiming Skills Eldritch Abomination Bloody Hilarious I Need a Freaking Drink Blood Knight Heroic Sacrifice Sacrificial Lion Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Off-into-the-Distance Ending Good Is Not Nice Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Jerkass Dirty Cop Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Is Petty No Celebrities Were Harmed Faux Affably Evil Really Gets Around Guns Akimbo Earn Your Happy Ending Badass Longcoat Historical Villain Upgrade Captain Obvious Not What It Looks Like Needs Wiki Magic Love Romantic False Lead What You Are in the Dark The Ghost All There in the Manual Didn't Think This Through Genre Throwback Pet the Dog Slashed Throat A Father to His Men Psycho for Hire Tempting Fate Large Ham Sir Swears-a-Lot Cool Shades Neck Lift Novelization Eiffel Tower Effect Distracted by the Sexy Random Events Plot She's Got Legs Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Celebrity Paradox Freeze-Frame Bonus Adaptational Heroism Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Femme Fatale Back from the Dead Ambiguous Disorder Dressing as the Enemy Nice Hat Bait-and-Switch Psychological Thriller Beware the Nice Ones Batman Gambit Tranquil Fury Spanner in the Works Be Careful What You Wish For Scenery Porn Facial Horror The Remake Not So Different One-Man Army Naked People Are Funny Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Wounded Gazelle Gambit Belligerent Sexual Tension The Hero "The Reason You Suck" Speech Parental Neglect Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Here We Go Again! Spiritual Successor Catapult Nightmare Death by Irony "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Damsel in Distress Heroic BSoD Gratuitous English Rewatch Bonus The Stinger Room Full of Crazy Unreliable Narrator The Cameo Outrun the Fireball Take That! Rule of Cool Asshole Victim Rule of Three Betty and Veronica Made of Iron Vacation Films No-Sell Get Out! Fantasy Films Black Comedy Dramatic Irony Evil Sounds Deep Adaptation Expansion Military and Warfare Films Left the Background Music On Based on a True Story How We Got Here Woman in White Affably Evil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Freudian Excuse Beta Couple Stuff Blowing Up He Who Fights Monsters Christmas Movies Index I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Russian Films The Smart Guy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Plucky Comic Relief Mistaken for Gay Nice Guy The Sociopath Precision F-Strike